Hope you all don't think I'm forever finding hammered coins, because I don't! Just been 'really', really, lucky. So this little gem is another...
Hello everyone, Here is another recent dug find. It's most likely going to be that of Henry III, but unlike with other reverse...
Greetings everyone, I recently detected this nibbled little half penny, sadly it looks like it only recently had a run in with the...
Thanks Dvcks for info, it all helps for future reference:)
Many thanks Furry Frog for all the info, I'll get it labelled now. Not as good as your Henry penny, nice one!
Hi everyone, Found this silver penny recently, but once more it has me stumped. I know the moneyers name is Ilger (a first for me), and it...
Greetings everyone from a wet U.K, Now I'm having a puzzling time with this circular bronze coin weight I recently found whilst detecting....
I've had quite a few contemporary Henry III fake pennies over the years, but despite its rough appearance it is silver. Don't know whether it's...
Thanks for this!
Thank you for this! How dumb of me not to see the I ! I am just as bad when it comes to identifying Elizabeth I coins! Alas I am not one of the...
Cheers for that, will get it noted.
Well I use the inner sweet wrappers from Quality Street chocolates:) So I have to eat a lot of chocolate, just for the wrappers of course. Tin...
Ahhh! I see, thanks for this. I've never found one before, saw a picture in a coin book and thought, "That's it!"
Hello again, Well I'm hoping I've got it right with Charles I, and a half groat? It is tiny, but my trusty Laser Rapier had no problem...
Hi everyone, I found this penny recently, but it's in not to great a condition. When I dug it up it was black, after a soaking and some...
The only Henry VIII coin I've ever found was a groat, and a contemporary forged one at that, guess old Copper Nose only had himself to blame when...
I don't get modern day fakes here, but I do get quite a few forgeries of the time, mostly these are Henry III pennies, base metal with a silver...
I'm wondering if being found beside an old house dump preserved it in some way, cos fertiliser is used by all the farmers here, hence the dire...
It does look a lot like your Eddy III penny, thanks for posting pics for comparison, really helpful.
Thanks so much for all this info! Yep it is a pretty ugly looking coin. Should have mentioned the field it came from seems to be around 14 th...
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